User talk:Dodger67/Archives/2010/February

Signing warnings

Hi. Thanks for the vandal patrolling. It is really helpful to admins like myself when following up on WP:AIV reports if when folks leave u3, u4, and u4im messages like you did on user talk: 99.72.39.220 that there be a signature with a timestamp (~~~~) after the warning so we can easily see when the last warning was left. This is especially important on IP editors. Otherwise we have to match the warning to the history and compare that to the last edit, with is about twice as complex. That being said, thanks for the warnings being issued. Most folks like you tend to use Twinkle to add such warnings. It almost automates the issuing of warnings and such, and it ensures that you sign. Check it out. Please keep up the great work. Toddst1 (talk) 13:08, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Working the numbers

Alot of bio articles of Presidents & Prime Ministers use the numbering in the content & infoboxes. Exampls are the US Presidents, Vice Presidents, Canadian Prime Ministers. GoodDay (talk) 21:37, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Its complicated in the case of South Africa. In the media and elswhere one is often left with the impression that the country has only existed since 1994. In reality SA has had Presidents since 1961 - first they were ceremonial only then they became executive and then came the post apartheid era. We had a discussion about the numbering of presidents issue on the wikiproject some time ago and came up with the current system where the phrase "#th post apartheid president" was decided. Please don't change the consensus position without first discussing the issue - prefereably at the Wikiproject South Africa page. Roger (talk) 22:08, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

But I've placed State President with those 1961-1994 fellows, in the contents. I believe a post apartheid note would help clarifiy things for Mandela & his successors. GoodDay (talk) 22:13, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Thats is how it was before you started fiddling with it today. Please take a look at Talk:President_of_South_Africa. I mean no offence but you are obviously not South African. I think we South Africans have a clearer understanding of our own history and systems of government - we don't need "outsiders" messing with our consensus. Roger (talk) 22:19, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

The President of South Africa article content needs to have the State Presidents excluded. However, I'll respect this consensus & revert to your previous revert. GoodDay (talk) 22:33, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Paper size

Please contribute a better wording for my edit on Paper size, or are you making some other point here? patsw (talk) 01:35, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Fanfold is not a Paper Size. What is so hard to understand about that? Fanfold paper is available in a variety of sizes - (Letter, A4, A3, etc.as well as many custom sizes for invoices and other business documents - often in carbonless duplicate/triplicate form). It differs from other paper in that the pages are connected to each other in a continous folded "string of sheets" separated by perforations, other ways paper is "presented" (here I need a better word) is as "separate cut sheets" as used in laser printers, copiers etc, "bound in books", "glued at one edge but removable" as in notepads etc. But the point remains that any of those "presentations" of paper are available in a variety of sizes. Roger (talk) 09:18, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Denel group restructuring

Hi Rodger, thanks for the heads up, I'll try help out where I can to get our coverage of Denel back to scratch. Impi (talk) 18:11, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism from 66.228.80.2

I just wanted to inform you, that User 66.228.80.2 has made yet more unconstructive edits to wikipedia here and here. I'm not sure what the normal procedure is in this case but given this IP's history, wouldn't it make sense to just block it permanently?--U5K0 (talk) 18:41, 19 February 2010 (UTC)